VCDS (VAG-COM) codes and programmable options for Golf Mk7

[Moonee]

there will be a way we just need to find it.

I hope you're right.

Curiously I notice the screen I annoyingly get on mine is a page full of text whereas you seem to only get a couple of lines. Strange.

[DV52]

Hi, Does anyone know how to remove this permanently? it comes up every second time I turn the ignition on...

Gillant: How do I get the message in your pic to appear on my car? Seriously, I've had my mk7 golf for almost two years and the screen in your picture has never appeared on my car!

The only thing that comes close to your pic is the "nag-screen" that tells me to not to take any notice of the information that is displayed on the SATNAV. But I notice that you have the media screen open behind the message on your car.

[GolfVII]

Yes the "nag-screen" is really annoying, I too have never seen that message you speak off Gillant.

I'm still unable to get the windows to close when it rains... this is the only tweak to not work so far.

I have a feeling the "nag-screen" is one of the long code bytes that does not have details in VCDS like changing the logos on start up don't have details as pictured here -
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Is there any country that does not require this annoying screen to appear, if so then maybe cross referencing the 5F controller on a car from here with ours and see whats not-selected or selected?

[Idle]

I hope you're right.

Curiously I notice the screen I annoyingly get on mine is a page full of text whereas you seem to only get a couple of lines. Strange.

I get the long one, too — if I read it right through I'd probably have been up the bum of a tram long ago.

Passengers keep pointing it out to me as some sort of joke — it's probably meant to cover VW's backside in some way or other.

Frequently I don't see it on a short trip until I've parked the car, so mostly it's just another nuisance.

The dealer says it's not removable — I don't believe him...

[GolfVII]

I just tested the logo change option in the long coding of 5F controller and every time I applied a change the nag screen appeared, I can not be arrssed sitting there deselecting the options listed and testing each one until it does not appear tonight but I may play with this another time.

I did find some long coding changes on a Leon that may help with my rain close issue. Can someone with this tweak working share the long code of RLS sensor, I would like to know if the Byte 0 / Bit 1 and Bit 2 are enabled?

[DV52]

I just tested the logo change option in the long coding of 5F controller and every time I applied a change the nag screen appeared, I can not be arrssed sitting there deselecting the options listed and testing each one until it does not appear tonight but I may play with this another time.

I did find some long coding changes on a Leon that may help with my rain close issue. Can someone with this tweak working share the long code of RLS sensor, I would like to know if the Byte 0 / Bit 1 and Bit 2 are enabled?

GolfVII: any further information about this hard-to-get-working tweak would be greatly appreciated! Here's the screen shot for the RLS/RLFS/RLHS (yes, both bits are enabled )



PS: what's the logo change? Are you referring to changing Byte 18?

[GolfVII]

Duh I feel silly now, I should have looked at the other links in the reference thread, I was only following Post #48 - Point 3

I can tell you these are not enabled on mine, I will do this tomorrow and give it a go again.

I wish I could give you kudos on here DV52 because you always come up with the answers

[DV52]

^^^^ no kudos needed, I just hope that you can get it to work- Good luck

[gillant]

Gillant: How do I get the message in your pic to appear on my car? Seriously, I've had my mk7 golf for almost two years and the screen in your picture has never appeared on my car!

The only thing that comes close to your pic is the "nag-screen" that tells me to not to take any notice of the information that is displayed on the SATNAV. But I notice that you have the media screen open behind the message on your car.

This message appears every second time I start my car. I also get the nag screen for the sat nav when I use it but this one comes up no matter what screen the infotainment system is on. I recon it used to come up less frequently when I first purchased the car but it really annoys me. my car is a MY14 GTI so not sure if that makes any diff.

[DV52]

This message appears every second time I start my car. I also get the nag screen for the sat nav when I use it but this one comes up no matter what screen the infotainment system is on. I recon it used to come up less frequently when I first purchased the car but it really annoys me. my car is a MY14 GTI so not sure if that makes any diff.

Gilant: As I said, never seen it before on my car! Have you done an admap on your control modules? If you have and you want to pursue the matter, put the admap files somewhere where I can download them and I'll compare the settings in your adaptation channels to those in my car. No guarantee that I will find anytheng, and I'm not sure exactly where to look, but there are a few likley places (i.e. 09-BCM, 17 Instruments, 19-CAN Gateway or 5F- Cent. Elect.).

[Sootchucker]

DV52, as you seem to be the resident VCDS lighting genius (hopefully flattery will get me everywhere), do you know if it's possible to active both rear fog lights on the Golf 7.

Mine is a UK GTD with the LED tail lights, and at present, only the right hand side illuminates, but some of the guys over on a UK Skoda forum say they have activated this for the MBQ Octavia III (but their adaptations channels look a little different) ?

Thanks

[DV52]

Scootchucker: Ahhh..........I can smell the whiff of flattery in the air! Who said that flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt but not swallowed? hahaha

Seriously, no flattery needed here - I'm glad to help if I can because I've learnt soooooo much from my very talented and extremely generous colleagues on VWW!

But enough of the platitudes - lets deal with your question. I'm really not too sure about the Octavia III, but I've dealt with your issue on VWVortex where NAR models there have no fog lights (at least in the UK, you appear to have one fog light).

Alas, the short answer to your question is NO - and this is why....

I'm not sure if you are aware of "Leuchte Programming" (I wrote a short a paper on the topic which you will find in my VCDS reference thread). In a brief few words - Leuchte channels are the way that the mk7 manages each of its 35 exterior lights (and the foot-well lights). In the BCM, there 665 Leuchte channels arranged in banks of 19 (which I call a Leuchte-set). Each Leuchte-set controls an individual light where that light is connected to separate PIN on the BCM. The BCM (also called - address 09-Cent. Elect, or on-board supply control unit, or J519, or CECM) provides the actual supply voltage to the lights on a mk7 (and in almost all cases, the BCM acts as the fuse/protection element for the light)

There is Leuchte-set called Leuchte26NSL LA72 which according to VW nomenclature translates in English to Fog-Light Rear Left-inside (Rear Lights)

However, there is no equivalent Leuchte-set for the right fog-light and the reason is simple: there is no separate PIN connection for a 2nd fog-light on the BCM in a mk7. Said another way, the two rear fog-lights on a mk7 (where fitted) are not separately wired back to the BCM. On models with two fog-lights, the two fog light sockets in the left/right tail-light assemblies are wired in parallel.


Here's a wiring diagram that I produced for a couple of VWVortex colleagues that show the Rear fog-light circuit arrangement on a mk 7 (note that the connection for the Left hand lamp on the BMC is Socket A PIN72 and that this lines-up with the Leuchte-set descriptor which is LA72 )


So, the answer to your issue about having a left fog-light on the mk7 is solved not by changing adaptation channels but rather by physically running a wire from your existing LH light to the other side of the vehicle. However, It's entirely possible that there will not be a socket in the fog-light position in the left-hand tail light assembly, so you might need to drill-out the blanking plate, or you can buy a tail-light assembly with the fog-light fitted.

Hope this all makes sense
Cheers Don

[Sootchucker]

Cheers pal.

Just a quick question though. Looking at the VW self study guide for the GTI / GTD (image below), it looks like the fog lights on these LED tail lights are themselves LED and not filament bulbs.

Does that mean the fog light LED's should be there but are just not activated ?

[DV52]

Cheers pal.

Just a quick question though. Looking at the VW self study guide for the GTI / GTD (image below), it looks like the fog lights on these LED tail lights are themselves LED and not filament bulbs.

Does that mean the fog light LED's should be there but are just not activated ?

Sootchucker: I'm really not sure if the fog-light position on the LHS is populated on VW's LED taillights (mine are the halogen version). VW make so many different variants of these things with-and-without fog-lights!

But there are a couple of options that I can suggest for you to confirm if the LED is there. Incidentally, in the LED tail-light version, I don't believe that you can add the fog-light lamp if it's not there already - I'm fairly certain that the LEDs are moulded into the tail-light assembly.

Here's a pic of the two tail-light lamp covers (rear of the assembly) from my car which like yours has only one fog light on the RHS. The upper pics were taken by simply opening the hatch door and removing the plastic covers that hide the lamp connectors. I've also shown below the shots of my two tail-lights, a pic of the LHS tail-light from the GTI assembly in your reply above (I don't have a pic of the RHS GTI tail-light)




As you can see, I've notated on the picture the PIN 5 position (which is the fog-light) on the connector from the wiring diagram on my previous post. For the LHS tail-light on the GTI LED assembly, Pin 5 is the top-most pin when the tailgate is open (see lower pic above). PIN 5 on the RHS tail light of the GTI LED assembly will be the PIN with the yellow-white wire. You should confirm that there isn't a yellow/white wire connected to PIN 5 on the left side tail-light assembly on your car

There are probably lots of other ways of confirming whether the LED for the fog-light is populated on your LHS assembly, but the two that come immediately to mind are:

(1) If you have a multimeter and you are confident in its use, you could check the "resistance" of the RHS pin. The problem with multimeters is that there is no uniformity about which coloured leads are actually positive and which are negative in the "resistance" mode. But this doesn't matter in your case. If the LED is there, you should get an open resistance reading with one of the multimeter lead connected to the pin and the other connected to ground, and you should get a resistance reading (the value doesn't matter) with the multimeter leads reversed. This happens because the internal battery inside the multimeter is forcing the LED to conduct when the leads are connected in the correct polarity (and the LED won't conduct when the leads are reversed). If you get an open resistance when you test PIN 5 with the multimeter leads connected both ways, the LED isn't there!

(2) You could temporarily connect a wire from the yellow/white wire on the RHS tail light connector to the vacant PIN on the LHS tail-light connector. An easy way of doing this is to use two (small) sewing needles. Pierce the yellow/white wire with one needle so that the needle contacts the copper wire and connect one-end of the temporary wire to this needle. Turn-on the fog-light and with the other end of the wire connected to the other needle, insert the needle into the vacant pin on the LHS connecter. You may need to jiggle the second needle to ensure that it's actually touching the male part of the vacant pin.

[badufay]

If anyone runs into issues coding out LED errors on the license plate bulbs, I ended up having to select "40- allgemeine LED" instead of 41 or 43. US Spec 15' Golf TDI S model... No errors or DTC stored.
Ben